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The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU or CU-Boulder) is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system. With its unique Tuscan sandstone architecture and its location nestled under the Flatiron rock formations of Boulder, the campus is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the United States.
CU has produced a number of astronauts, Nobel Prize laureates, and respected academics, but also has a reputation as a party school. In 2003, the Princeton Review awarded it as the top party school in the nation (USA), out of 351 entrants. CU dropped to number 9 in 2004.
CU is home of the Alferd Packer Grill, supposedly the only campus eatery in America named for a convicted cannibal.
Athletics
Sports teams at the school are called Buffaloes. CU participates in the NCAA's Division I (I-A for football) as a member of the Northern Division of the Big Twelve Conference. The school mascot is Ralphie the Buffalo and the school colors are Silver and Gold, but are usually represented by Black and Gold.
CU has won national championships in both men's and women's cross crountry, skiing, and football. Conference championships have also been won in football and soccer.
In football, CU enjoys major rivalries with Colorado State University and Nebraska. The annual CU-CSU football game, dubbed the "Rocky Mountain Showdown," has been played in recent years in Denver at Mile High Stadium (and subsequently INVESCO Field at Mile High). Colorado and Nebraska traditionally finish their respective seasons in a nationally televised confrontation on the Friday following Thanksgiving.
Notable CU students, alumni, and staff
- Loren Acton, NASA astronaut
- Patrick Baudry, CNES astronaut
- James Barton, Co-founder of TiVo
- Bob Beauprez, U.S. Representative
- Petr Beckmann, physicist, engineer
- Chauncey Billups, member of the Detroit Pistons of the NBA
- Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
- Vance D. Brand, NASA astronaut
- Scott Carpenter, NASA astronaut
- Kalpana Chawla, Columbia astronaut
- Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
- Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician
- Judy Collins, American folk musician
- Eric Allin Cornell, physicist, Nobel laureate
- Takao Doi, NASA astronaut
- Ed Dorn, poet
- Samuel T. Durrance, NASA astronaut
- Larry Esposito, discoverer of Saturn's fourth ring
- George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist
- Dave Grusin, composer
- John Herrington, NASA astronaut
- Richard Hieb, NASA astronaut
- Katie Hnida, football place kicker (now attends University of New Mexico)
- Hale Irwin, golf star
- Marsha Ivins, NASA astronaut
- Deborah S. Jin, physicist
- Alan Kay, computer scientist, Turing Award winner
- William Lee Knous, state Supreme Court judge and state legislator
- Herbert Kroemer, physicist
- Larry Linville, actor
- John M. Lounge, NASA astronaut
- Christopher Meloni, actor
- Richard McCray, astrophysicist
- Glenn Miller, band leader
- James Naismith, inventor of basketball
- George Nelson, NASA astronaut
- Ellison Onizuka, Challenger astronaut
- Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
- William Pierce, physicist, white separatist
- Robert Redford, actor
- Stuart Roosa, NASA astronaut
- Roy Romer, former Colorado governor
- Ronald M. Sega, NASA astronaut
- Paul Soldner, artist
- Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park
- Jack Swigert, Apollo 13 astronaut
- Dalton Trumbo, writer
- Debra Thomas, Olympic figure skater
- Joan Van Ark, actress
- James Voss, NASA astronaut
- Byron White, associate justice of the Supreme Court
- Leslie Whittington, Georgetown professor and Sep. 11 victim
- Carl Wieman, physicist, Nobel laureate
- Steve Wozniak, personal computer pioneer
- Thomas R. Cech, chemist, Nobel laureate
Demographics
- 29,000 Students
- 22,000 Undergraduates
- 4,400 Graduate Students
- 47% Women
- 53% Men
- 66% In State (Colorado Resident)
- 34% Non Resident
- 14% Minorities
- 4% International Students
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